Analysis of The Swallow Leaves Her Nest
Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1803 (Clifton, Bristol) – 1849 (Basel)
THE swallow leaves her nest,
The soul my weary breast;
But therefore let the rain
On my grave
Fall pure; for why complain?
Since both will come again
O'er the wave.
The wind dead leaves and snow
Doth hurry to and fro;
And, once, a day shall break
O'er the wave,
When a storm of ghosts shall shake
The dead, until they wake
In the grave.
Scheme | aabcbxC ddeCeec |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101 011101 11101 111 111101 111101 1001 011101 110101 010111 1001 1011111 010111 001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 333 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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